THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY Fifteenth Annual Meeting October 23-24, 2011 Philadelphia, PA

IAEP Executive Committee Irene Klaver, University of North Texas, Co-Director Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology, Co-Director Steven Vogel, Denison University, Secretary James Hatley, Salisbury University, Treasurer Janet Donohoe, University of West Georgia, Member-at-Large David Wood, Vanderbilt University, Member-at-Large

Facilities, Accommodations, and Registration: All sessions will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel. Overnight accommodation rates are available at the hotel for the conference rate of $175 for a single or double occupancy. Call either 866-716-8115 (toll-free reservation line) or 215-238-6000 for reservations. To receive these rates participants must identify themselves as attending the SPEP conference and make their reservations by September 26, 2011. Conference registration will take place on Sunday morning outside the room where the keynote presentation will take place.

IAEP Registration Sunday 8:30-10:30 Ballroom Foyer

PLEASE NOTE CHANGES IN SOME ROOM ASSIGNMENTS COMPARED TO THE PROGRAM PUBLISHED IN THE SPEP BULLETIN

SUNDAY MORNING 9:00—10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Place and Built Environment Shippen Room Moderator: Janet Donohoe, University of West Georgia “Thinking About Thinking About Light: Phenomenological Reflections on Light as Metaphor and Lighting in Built Environments,” Taylor Stone, York University “Engineering, Biomimicry and Ecophenomenology,” Richard L. Wilson, University of Maryland at Baltimore County “Chicago Wilderness: A Case Study in Ethics of Place,” Anja Claus, Northeastern Illinois University

Session 2: Aesthetics and Phantasmatics Ballroom Section E2 Moderator: Charles Brown, Emporia State University “Hegel, Nature, Art: Rethinking Some Issues in the Philosophy of Nature.” Lucy Schultz, University of Oregon “On Pluralism and Universalism in Environmental Aesthetics,” Jonathan Maskit, Denison University “Phantasmatic Natures: Uncanny Ecologies in Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive,” Robert M. W. Brown, York University

Session 3: Nietzsche and Romanticism: 19th Century German Perspectives Cook Room Moderator: Silvia Benso, Rochester Institute of Technology “German Romanticism and Environmental Philosophy,” Dalia Nassar, Villanova University “‘Remaining True to the Earth’: Nietzsche and Environmental Consciousness,” Dale Wilkerson, University of North Texas “Nietzsche and the Naturalization of Humanity: Life as the Standard for Knowledge,” Jordan S. Batson, University of North Texas

SUNDAY MORNING 10:30 a.m.—10:45 a.m., Coffee Break Bromley Room

SUNDAY MORNING 10:45 a.m.—12:15 p.m.

Session 1: East Asian Perspectives: Daoist, Buddhist, Neo-Confucian Shippen Room Moderator: James Hatley, Salisbury University “Patterns of Continuity and Discontinuity between Humans and Nonhumans and the Possibility/Impossibility of Human Intervention in Spinoza and Zhuangzi,” Sonya N. Ozbey, DePaul University “Wang Yangming and Environmental Ethics,” Sam Cocks, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Session 2: Restoration, Agriculture and Ecosystems Ballroom Section E2 Moderator: Brian Treanor, Loyola Marymount University “Sustainable Agriculture, the Concept of Territory and the Status of Nonhumans: Organic Agriculture Versus Agroecology,” Michael Menser, Brooklyn College “Selling Nature, Buying Time?” Jozef Keulartz, Radboud University of Nijmegen and Wageningen University

Session 3: Eco-Phenomenological/Continental Environmental Perspectives Cook Room Moderator: David Wood, Vanderbilt University “Marks on the Earth: A Hermeneutics of Environmental Action,” Nathan M. Bell, University of North Texas “The Prospects for an Ethics of the Nonhuman in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas,” Derek Harley Moyer, Warner Pacific College “The Morality of Paying Attention: Towards An Eco-Phenomenological Einstellung,” Philip Day, University of North Texas

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 2:00—3:30 p.m.

Session 1: Animality and the Non-Human Shippen Room Moderator: Ted Toadvine, University of Oregon “Adorno’s Return of the Repressed: Mimesis, Affect, and the Figure of the Animal,” Lauren Guilmette, Emory University “Of Mites and Men Animality, Bare Life and the Re-performance of the Human in The Open,” Rebekah Sinclair, Claremont Graduate University “Defending the Other Species Capability: Why Having a Meaningful Relationship with Nature is Necessary for a Living a Dignified Human Life,” Larissa Walker, Lehigh University

Session 2: Liberalism and Authoritarianism Ballroom Section E2 Moderator: Jozef Keulartz, Radboud University of Nijmegen and Wageningen University “The Rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the End of the Postmodern: Where the Environmental Left Meets the Authoritarian Right,” Wendy Lynne Lee, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania “The Compatibility of Liberalism, Environmental Education, and Education for Sustainable Development,” Matt Ferkany and Kyle Powys Whyte, Michigan State University “Sustainability is Corporate: The Technological Character of Neoliberalism,” Aaron Vansintjan, McGill University

Session 3: Critical Theory Perspectives Cook Room Moderator: Steven Vogel, Denison University “Critical Recognition Justice and Environmental Justice: A Deliberative/Communicative Assessment,” David Utsler, University of North Texas “A Disaster Citable in All Its Moments: Reframing the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill,” Christy Reynolds, University of Oregon “Compromised Nature: Axel Honneth’s Curtailed Critique of the Dialectic of Enlightenment,” Miles Hentrup, Stony Brook University

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3:30 p.m.—3:45 p.m., Coffee Break Bromley Room

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3:45 p.m.—5:15 p.m.

Session 1: The Seasons: Phenomenological and Environmental Perspectives Shippen Room Moderator: James Hatley, Salisbury University The Seasons: Phenomenological and Environmental Perspectives “Seasons as Atmospheres: Rethinking the Relationship between the Psyche and Nature,” Luke Fischer, University of Sydney “Seasons Embodied: The Story of a Plant,” Craig Holdrege, The Nature Institute “The Seasons and the Rhythms of Time,” David Macauley, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine

Session 2: Science, Technology and the Future Ballroom Section E2 Moderator: Kyle Powys Whyte, Michigan State University “Tiptoeing through Nature: Ecological Metagenomics and its Contribution to an Ecological Ethics,” Martin Drenthen, Radboud University of Nijmegen “Leaving the Biosphere to the Future,” Matthias Fritsch, Concordia University, Montreal “NOLA: Climate Justice, Grief, and Nonhuman Actants,” Janet Fiskio, Oberlin College

Session 3: Environmental Imagination/Imaginary Cook Room Moderator: Jonathan Maskit, Denison University “As Seen from Space: Technology and Environmental Imagination,” Matthew S. Bower, University of North Texas “Intimations of a New Socioecological Imaginary: Sartre, Taylor, and the Planetary Crisis,” Matthew C. Alley, City University of New York/BMCC

IAEP BUSINESS MEETING Sunday 5:30 p.m.—6:30 p.m. Ballroom Section D

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2011 8:00 p.m.

IAEP KEYNOTE SPEAKER Ballroom

Introduced and Moderated by Irene Klaver, University of North Texas

“Dwelling in the Natural City”

INGRID LEMAN STEFANOVIC University of Toronto ______

IAEP RECEPTION 9:30 p.m. Ballroom Foyer

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011

MONDAY MORNING 9:00 a.m.—10:30 a.m.

Session 1: Environmental Justice and Politics Cook Room Moderator: Irene Klaver, University of North Texas “Ecological Citizenship Revisited,” Julie Kuhlken, Misericordia University “Eco-governmentality: Michel Foucault and the Environmental Politics of the U.S./Mexico Border Wall,” Thomas Nail, University of Oregon “Loose Integrity and Ecosystem Justice on the Capabilities Approach,” Daniel L. Crescenzo, University of Georgia

Session 2: Doing Time: Foucault, Prisons and the Environment Ballroom Section E1 Moderator: Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington “The Domination of Nature: Regarding Time as an Ethical Concept,” Bryan E. Bannon, Wesleyan University “Environmental Justice for Prisons: Ensuring Protection for a Unique Population,” Lauren Helixon, University of North Texas

“A Restorative Environmental Justice for the Prison-Industrial-Complex,” Sarah Conrad, University of North Texas

Session 3: Protozoan Intentionality: Explorations in the Continuity of Mind and Life Ballroom Section E2 Moderator: David Seamon, Kansas State University “Evan Thompson vs. Daniel Dennett on Mind, Life and Evolution,” David Storey, Fordham University “The Role of Environmental Allure in Instincts,” Adam Konopka, The College of Mount St. Joseph “Is There ‘Deep Continuity’ between Mind and Life? Kant’s Persistent Challenge to the Deep Continuity Thesis,” Eleanor Helms, California Polytechnic State University

MORNING MORNING 10:30 a.m.—10:45 a.m., Coffee Break Bromley Room

MORNING MORNING 10:45 a.m.—12:15 p.m.

Session 1: Exploring Our Continuity with Modernity in Environmental Crisis Ballroom Section E1 Moderator: Keith Peterson, Colby College “Inheriting the Lessons of Modern Thought in Regard to our Environment,” Daniel Guentchev, Southern Illinois University Carbondale “Naturally Modern, Wildly Non-Modern,” Alejandro Strong, Southern Illinois University Carbondale “On Inheriting and Acknowledging our Ambivalent Relation to Modernity,” Tim McCune, Southern Illinois University Carbondale “Listening to the Reverberations of Our Modern Ancestors,” Mike Jostedt, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Session 2: Listening to Feminism, Deep Ecology, Spirituality, and Place Cook Room Moderator: Matt Ferkany, Michigan State University “The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy: Listening to Deep Ecology, Feminism and Trees,” Ellen Miller, Rowan University “Being-at-Home: Gary Snyder and the Poetics of Place,” Josh Michael Hayes, Santa Clara University

Session 3: Midgley and the Greeks: A Mixed Community of Laws and Land Ballroom Section E2 Moderator: John Panteleimon Manoussakis, College of the Holy Cross “Mary Midgley and the Mixed Community in Environmental Ethics,” Gregory S. McElwain, The College of Idaho “Property and the Land: Lessons from Xenophon and Frost,” Dennis E. Skocz, Independent Scholar “Environmental ethos in Plato’s Laws,” Tua Korhonen, University of Helsinki

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Meeting 1: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY NETWORK David Seamon, Kansas State University, and Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, University of Toronto, Conveners and Moderators

MONDAY AFTERNOON 1:45 p.m.—3:15 p.m. Session 1: Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology: First Panel Ballroom Section E1

“A Tale of Two Cities and a River: Urban Renewal on the Trinity River in North Texas,” Irene J. Klaver, University of North Texas “Current Thinking: Water, Boundaries and Re lationships along the Credit River,” Sarah King, Queens University, Canada “Commonalities among Three Phenomenologies of Water: The Work of Hydrologist Theodor Schwenk, Sculptor John Wilkes, and Naturalist Viktor Schauberger,” David Seamon, University of Kansas

MONDAY AFTERNOON 3:15 p.m.—3:30 p.m., Coffee Break Frampton Room

Monday 3:30—4:30 p.m. Session 2: Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology: Second Panel Ballroom Section E1 “Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Rivers: A Way to Integrate Design, Ecology, and Politics,” Robert Mugerauer, University of Washington “Hidden Streams: A Phenomenology of Underground Water Ways,” Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, University of Toronto

MONDAY AFTERNOON 4:30 p.m.—4:45 p.m. Close-out and Summary Discussion Ballroom Section E1 ______

Meeting 2: SOCIETY FOR NATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College, Convener and Moderator

MONDAY AFTERNOON 1:45 p.m.—3:15 p.m. Session 1: Society for Nature, Philosophy and Religion: First Panel Reynolds Room “‘I am the Rose of Sharon’: Shadows of Renewal in the Anthropocene,” James Hatley, Salisbury University “Thoreau East and West,” Christopher Dustin, College of the Holy Cross “Creation Narratives and Environmental Care,” Brian Treanor, Loyola Marymount University

MONDAY AFTERNOON 3:15—3:30 a.m., Coffee Break Shippen Room

MONDAY AFTERNOON 3:30 p.m.—5:00 p.m. Session 2: Society for Nature, Philosophy and Religion: Second Panel Reynolds Room “Plato’s Speculative Good Friday,” John Panteleimon Manoussakis, College of the Holy Cross “Eros, Askesis, Ekstasis: John Muir as Poet for Needy Times,” Bruce Foltz, Eckerd College “Ecological Asceticism,” Christina M. Gschwandtner, University of Scranton “Early Christian Perspectives on American Nature: The Dissenting Views of James Fenimore and Susan Fenimore Cooper,” Alfred Siewers, Bucknell University ______

Meeting 3: SOCIETY FOR ECOFEMINISM, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY

MONDAY AFTERNOON 1:45 p.m.—3:10 p.m. Session 1: Wilderness, Social Justice, and Cultural Imperialism Cook Room “Beyond Romantic Open Spaces: Social Justice and the American Idea of Wilderness,” Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College “Ecological Feminism and the Environment of Empire,” Nathaniel Van Yperen, Princeton Theological Seminary “Dangerous Purity and Culture: The Myth of Pristine Wilderness and Its Racist and Elitist Implications,” Tess Varner, University of Georgia

MONDAY AFTERNOON 3:10 p.m.—3:30 p.m., Coffee Break, Shippen Room

MONDAY AFTERNOON 3:30 p.m.—4:10 p.m. Session 2: Ethics of Food and Farming Cook Room “Women’s Sense of Farming: An Ethnographic Study of Ecofeminism in Sustainable Farming and Local Foods,” Tatiana Abatemarco, University of Vermont “A Pig’s Tale: Narrative Ethics, Pasture-Raised Relationships, and our Moral Community of Care,” Lissy Goralnik and Laurie Thorp, Michigan State University

MONDAY AFTERNOON 4:10 p.m.—4:15 p.m., Break

MONDAY AFTERNOON 4:15 p.m.—5:00 p.m. Session 3: Environmental Justice and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Cook Room “Environmental Justice and Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” Kyle Powys Whyte, Michigan State University

MONDAY AFTERNOON 5:00 p.m.—5:15 p.m. SEEJSE Business Meeting: All are welcome Cook Room